A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
After a B.A. in Russian at the University of London and a Master in Business Administration in Chicago, and doing consulting work in media-related companies like IBM, Bertelsmann and Hamburg Media School, Natalia Preston ventured a number of businesses on her own. Among other things she organized language tours to Moscow and operated a German bakery in California selling pretzels and Christmas Stollen. She finished a Masters in Cine Documental y Experimental at the University of Madrid in 2016 and studied at FilmArche, Berlin, 2014-2015. Her first film is called “Carmen” and describes the everyday life of a street musician from Venezuela in the metro of the Spanish capital. She has dedicated much her time to making her own documentary films about topics and causes she feels strongly about.
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.